Why is the subject of cowboy singing pertinent today?
The film also takes a universal theme of not only why cowboys sing but why all of us sing or don’t sing in contemporary life. The great western writer Wallace Stegner wrote that we need wilderness to combat “our termite lives.” As producers who seek meaning, we fear that through the frenetic existence that defines modern life — a constant bombardment of entertainments — that many of us no longer hear our own voice in the song on the radio. As kids of the sixties and seventies we know the power of seeing the world through a song. This film is a cry from the wilderness, from a group of people whose way of life, whose very song now hangs in the balance.
